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Demonstration Projects and Applications in Building and Civil Infrastructure

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Alkali Activated Materials

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In the context of a Report such as this, it is of immense value to be able to provide tangible examples of structures and applications in which alkali-activated concretes have been utilised throughout the past decades. A detailed outline of the utilisation of AAM concretes in the former Soviet Union and in China is given in Chap. 12 of the book by Shi, Krivenko and Roy [1], and this chapter will briefly describe some of the applications mentioned in that (more extensive) document, along with applications elsewhere in the world where AAMs have been utilised on a significant scale in the construction of buildings and other civil infrastructure components. An overview of developments and applications in the former USSR has also been presented by Brodko [2] and by Krivenko [3]. Each project reported in this chapter involves at least pilot-scale, and in some cases full commercial-scale, production of alkali-activated concretes utilising largely standard concrete mixing and placement equipment and labour, indicating that these materials are both accessible and useful on this length scale, given sufficient expertise in mix design based on locally available precursors. In the former USSR in particular, slags obtained from local iron production facilities were used in each of the different locations in which the concretes were produced, and activators were sourced in large part from locally available alkaline industrial waste streams.

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Acknowledgement

 We are very grateful to MSc Bob Talling, Renotech Oy, for supplying the majority of the information presented in Sect. 11.7.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 3JD, UK

    John L. Provis

  2. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia

    John L. Provis, David G. Brice & Jannie S. J. van Deventer

  3. Zeobond Group, 23450, Docklands, VIC, 8012, Australia

    David G. Brice & Jannie S. J. van Deventer

  4. ASCEM B.V., Beek, The Netherlands

    Anja Buchwald & J. A. L. M. (Hans) Wiercx

  5. Zeobond Pty Ltd., Docklands, VIC, 8012, Australia

    Peter Duxson

  6. V.D. Glukhovskii Scientific Research Institute for Binders and Materials, Kiev National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Kiev, Ukraine

    Elena Kavalerova & Pavel V. Krivenko

  7. College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Caijun Shi

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Provis, J.L. et al. (2014). Demonstration Projects and Applications in Building and Civil Infrastructure. In: Provis, J., van Deventer, J. (eds) Alkali Activated Materials. RILEM State-of-the-Art Reports, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7672-2_11

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